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Sunday, August 28, 2011

Blood Song by Rhiannon Hart. Sydney: Random House, 2011

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Zeraphina is the younger princess of Amentia, a small queendom in the south of her continent. It's cold, getting colder and the crops ...
Saturday, August 27, 2011

Crow Country by Kate Constable. Melbourne: Allen and Unwin, 2011

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Sadie and her mother have moved from their lovely Melbourne home by the sea to Boort, her mother's home town in regional Victoria, whe...
Thursday, August 25, 2011

In My Mailbox

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Received recently: Crow Country by Kate Constable, finished and soon to be reviewed. Shake A Leg by Boori Monty Pryor and Jan Ormerod, Bl...
Sunday, August 21, 2011

Selena Wang Interviews Cath Crowley

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Greetings Great Raven readers. Once more, Selena Wang, guest blogger, is with us to interview yet another terrific writer. This time, it...
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Saturday, August 20, 2011

Wolfborn Giveaway!

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I had this bright idea that I would post a sample chapter from my novel Wolfborn on Goodreads. Unfortunately, I haven't worked out ...
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TEMPEST RISING By Tracy Deebs. London: Bloomsbury, 2011

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Tempest Maguire is a half-mermaid. She lives with her father and younger brothers, since her mother went returned to the sea some years ag...
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CBCA Winners 2011

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Here are this year's winners of the CBCA awards for children's books. I'd like to congratulate all the winners. I admi...
Sunday, August 14, 2011

Riley and the Grumpy Wombat: A Journey Around Melbourne. Text by Tania McCartney, art by Kieron Pratt. Clifton Hill: Ford Street Publishing, 2011

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This latest publication from Ford Street Publishing is a picture book. Photos of Melbourne are mixed with delightful art by Kieron Pratt a...
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Friday, August 12, 2011

More Phryne Fisher TV series stuff

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The casting has been announced - Essie Davis as Miss Fisher. She is, in fact, the author's choice, and Kerry says that she also gets t...
Tuesday, August 09, 2011

More Hobbit movie excitement

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I've finished my evening with a wander on to the Hobbit movie blog site - The Hobbit Blog - and can heartily recommend it. It's f...
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Saturday, August 06, 2011

The CYL Comes To Sunshine College

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A couple of weeks ago, I got a call from Adele Walsh, the new head honcho at the State Library's Centre for Youth Literature...
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Sunday, July 31, 2011

Hobbit movie excitement

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Anyone excited about the Hobbit movie? I am! They are gradually releasing pictures of the cast in costume and make-up and I have to say tha...
Saturday, July 30, 2011

Happy Birthday, J.K.Rowlng!

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And Harry too, of course. It's weird, you know, I'd forgotten and yet last night I was googling various facts about religion in the ...
Friday, July 29, 2011

More egoboo!

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After several months out in the world, my novel is still getting some reviews and some of them are nice! The following is by Virginia Lowe, ...
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Writing With A Day Job

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I wrote this, originally, for the SCBWI newsletter, after reading articles about how you can make the best of your working day as a writer a...
Saturday, July 23, 2011

Currently Reading...

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There's a pile of review books in my living-room and some others I have to read for school, with the authors coming to visit or because ...

HAUNTING VIOLET By Alyxandra Harvey. London:Bloomsbury, 2011

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Alyxandra Harvey is best known for her popular Drake Chronicles series, about the likeable family of vampires, the Drakes, with all those tr...
Saturday, July 16, 2011

New link added - Rhiannon Hart

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If you look over to the list of links on the right, you will see the latest - the blog of fellow Melbourne writer, Rhiannon Hart, whose firs...
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Friday, July 15, 2011

Changing Yesterday By Sean McMullen. Melbourne: Ford Street Publishing 2011.

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In Before The Storm , Liore and Fox, two young cadets from a dystopian future travelled back in time to 1901 Melbourne, to prevent a terrori...
Thursday, July 14, 2011

MOLE HUNT (The Maximus Black Files #1) by Paul Collins. Melbourne, Ford Street Publishing, 2011.

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The “mole” of the title, Maximus Black, isn’t the blind, digging creature but the spy kind. Only in his teens, Maximus Black is a brilli...